Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Fishers of Menace
by Wendy Heuvel
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Welcome to Banford, where townsfolk are family, tea is hot, and murder is inevitable.
Cassie Bridgestone’s life is simple. Along with running her country décor shop, she loves to cuddle her cat, sip tea, attend church, and watch birds.
But then, things go awry. First, the handsome but mysterious Daniel opens a bookstore in her building and challenges her to face long-buried feelings about her previous relationship. Then, a friendly fishing tournament turns deadly and her friend is accused of murder, throwing Cassie’s world into a tailspin she might never recover from.
Unless she finds the real killer.
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(Faith and Foils Cozy Mysteries)
Every Little Lie
by Alexandria Clarke
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After revealing a big secret, Calamity James is on the outs with the one person she can always rely on: her sister. As the Red River Founders Celebration approaches, descendants of the town’s original settlers are mysteriously targeted for murder, and Cal hunts down a ghost with a grudge.
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(A Calamity James Mysteries)
Within and Without Time
by D. I. Hennessey
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Be prepared to laugh and cry, to be inspired, and find your heart rejoicing! Experience the Origin of a Prophet …
When a sixteen-year-old boy is suddenly caught up in a series of miraculous encounters, it heralds an adventure that will transform his life, rock his town, and trigger events that will ultimately change the world!
Befriended by a powerful angelic warrior, Jimmy finds himself in the center of God’s plan for Earth’s final Great Revival. The beginning of God’s amazing harvest at the End of the Age. Like an intense roller coaster, the journey he experiences is exciting and unpredictable. Heartwarming, as well as heart-rending. God prepares him for a mission more extraordinary than anything he could have imagined, placing him in the rare company of ancient prophets and apostles alike.
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(Within & Without Time Mysteries)
Winterset Hollow
by Jonathan Durham
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction . . . especially on Addington Isle.
Winterset Hollow follows a group of friends to the place that inspired their favorite book—a timeless tale about a tribe of animals preparing for their yearly end-of-summer festival. But after a series of shocking discoveries, they find that much of what the world believes to be fiction is actually fact, and that the truth behind their beloved story is darker and more dangerous than they ever imagined. It’s Barley Day . . . and you’re invited to the hunt.
The Unheard
by Nicci French
Rating: 4.0 #ad
In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author that People calls “razor sharp,” a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when the girl draws a disturbing picture – but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything.
Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her with a sense of dread. It’s not that Jason is a bad father – it just hurts to see him enjoying married life with someone else. Still, she owes it to her daughter Poppy to make this arrangement work.
But Poppy returns from the weekend tired and withdrawn. And when she shows Tess a crayon drawing – an image so simple and violent that Tess can hardly make sense of it – Poppy can only explain with the words, “He did kill her.”
Tents, Trails and Turmoil
by Tonya Kappes
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Welcome to Normal, Kentucky~ where nothing is normal.
Mae West knows tourism and nothing stops tourists like a dead body found in the Daniel Boone National Park.Unfortunately, Yaley Woodard, a local tour guide, is found dead at Happy Trails Campground.
Mae is determined to put her amateur sleuth skills to investigate along with the help of the Laundry Club gals. But when Yaley’s past ends up being tied to forest trails and local Joel Grassel,
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(A Camper & Criminals Coz Mysteries)
Under Your Spell Collection
by Multiple Authors
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Your favorite fairy tales … with a twist. What happens when you can’t choose between Prince Charming and the Dragon? What if Goldilocks really wanted to stay? Was the Big Bad Wolf really that bad?
Thirteen titillating stories from USA Today best-selling and award-winning romance authors in a spicy collection curated by The New Romance Café. HEA guaranteed.
A Skein of Murder
by Patti Benning
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Dark and stormy nights can be murder. The last thing alpaca farmer, avid crocheter, and amateur sleuth, Josephina Thompson, expects to see in the middle of a summer storm is a stranger at her front door, muttering about a car accident that he witnessed and demanding her help.
Jo braves the rain and thunder and hurries to the scene of the accident, only to discover a dead woman and a mysterious figure watching them through the downpour.
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(Homespun Crochet Cozy Mysteries)
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Curious Case of Florence Winters
by May Bridges
Rating: 4.1 #ad
A kidnapping in New York City’s illustrious high society, and the inquisitive young woman who’s determined to redeem her family’s good name. Will she outsmart the culprit, even after another person winds up dead?
New York City, 1925. Florence Winters is ready to escape the whispers about her.
Stuck in small-town Ohio, she’s done living the spinster life and ready to move on to greener pastures, so when her wealthy and slightly eccentric Aunt Julia requests Florence’s companionship in New York City—she knows it’s an offer she can’t refuse.
But she has no idea what awaits her in Aunt Julia’s ravishing brownstone in the West Village. Secret meetings. Secret passages. Secretive house staff. Even Aunt Julia’s cat seems to have something to hide!
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(Florence Winters Mysteries)
Try Again
by Wesley Southard
Rating: 4.5 #ad
After an exhausting day at work and a run-in with an obnoxious loudmouth at the gym, all Robin Bellamy wants is to go home and unwind with her father. But when she reaches their house, she discovers something is very wrong. Several armed men appear to be waiting inside, and they’re threatening her father’s life. However, there’s a bigger problem:
The house itself won’t let her in.
After trying numerous times, Robin realizes there may only be one right way into her own home. Can she uncover the correct route in and through the house before the trespassers even know she’s there?
The Girl Who Survived
by Lisa Jackson
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A BRAND NEW RELEASE
Has she already had her last chance to be the final girl?
All her life, she’s been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing spree at her family’s Oregon cabin, Kara McIntyre is still searching for some kind of normal. But now, twenty years later, the past has come thundering back. Her brother, Jonas, who was convicted of the murders has unexpectedly been released from prison. The press is in a frenzy again. And suddenly, Kara is receiving cryptic messages from her big sister, Marlie – who hasn’t been seen or heard from since that deadly Christmas Eve when she hid little Kara in a closet with a haunting, life-saving command: Don’t make a sound.
The Dee Valley Killings
by Simon McCleave
Rating: 4.2 #ad
A twisted serial killer. A deadly game of cat and mouse. Can DI Ruth Hunter catch a crazed psychopath who seems intent on destroying her life?
DI Ruth Hunter hopes that settling in Snowdonia with will melt away the grief of a missing partner. Burying herself in her work, she senses that her current missing persons case isn’t all that it seems. When a man’s body turns up torn to pieces, Ruth realises that she is now tracking a deadly serial killer.
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(A DI Ruth Hunter Mysteries)
Bloodline
by Jess Lourey
Rating: 4.2 #ad
Perfect town. Perfect homes. Perfect families. It’s enough to drive some women mad…
In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she’s eager to settle down. Lilydale’s motto, “Come Home Forever,” couldn’t be more inviting.
And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect village.
The Perfect Wife
by JP Delaney
Rating: 4.1 #ad
Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He’s a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving mother to their young son, and the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss.
She is a miracle of science.
Finding Courage
by Anne Perreault
Rating: 4.7 #ad
How does anyone survive the brutal murder of a parent and beloved sister?
Nicolette Dubois survived the vicious attack that claimed the lives of those she loved most. She has turned her life around, achieving her dream of becoming a successful horse trainer. Things are running smoothly. One might say, she’s found a measure of happiness. Until… she is hunted by a perpetrator from her past and must find courage to rebuild her life.
K-9 handler, Blake Matheson, is Nicolette’s best friend. When Nicolette’s life is threatened, Blake and his canine partner Jax must give everything to rescue her. However, he fails to keep the one promise to the woman he has come to love when she needs him the most.
The Birth of Rage
by J. Shanee Byers
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Uneque Jones has to face the reality that she made a rash decision to let go of Charles, the man she loves. She manages to cope by surrounding herself with friends, work and even a fling. But Charles has a lover, too. He just doesn’t know it yet. Will they be able to withstand the challenges that arise, or will they fail at their second chance?
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
The Book of Candlelight
by Ellery Adams
Rating: 4.6 #ad
In the new Secret, Book, and Scone Society novel from New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams, the rain in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, has been relentless—and a flood of trouble is about to be unleashed . . .
Nora Pennington figures all the wet weather this spring is at least good for business. The local inns are packed with stranded travelers, and among them Nora finds new customers for her store, Miracle Books. Since a little rain never hurt anyone, Nora rides her bike over to the flea market one sodden day and buys a bowl from Danny, a Cherokee potter. But the next day, after Miracle River overflows its banks, and Danny’s body is found floating within the churning waters, Nora decides it’s time for the Secret, Book, and Scone Society to spring into action.
A Ruin of Roses
by K.F. Breene
Rating: 4.3 #ad
I could save him, but he would ruin me.
The beast. The creature that stalks the forbidden wood. The dragon prince. He has suffered a fate worse than death. We all have. A curse put upon us by the mad king.
We are a kingdom locked in time. Shifters unable to feel our animals. Stuck here by a deal between the late king and a demon who seeks our destruction. The only one keeping this kingdom alive is Nyfain, the golden prince to a stolen throne. The last dragon shifter.
He’s our hope. He’s my nightmare.
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(Deliciously Dark Fairytales Mysteries)
The Best of Friends
by Lucinda Berry
Rating: 4.3 #ad
An unthinkable tragedy forever changes a group of teens and turns family against family in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that begs to be read in one sitting.
Best friends Lindsey, Kendra, and Dani endure every parent’s nightmare when a tragic accident befalls their teenage boys, leaving one dead, another in a coma, and a third too traumatized to speak.
Reeling from the worst night of their lives, the three mothers plunge into a desperate investigation of the bizarre incident. How could something so horrible happen in their wealthy Southern California suburb?
Journeys
by Jeanne Roland
Rating: 4.9 #ad
A barracks full of beautiful boys. A girl in disguise, living among them.
It’s the 14th century, and the longbow is king. But in the northern European principality of Ardennes, archery isn’t just the nation’s defense. It’s the national obsession.
MEET THE JOURNEYS
12 young Journeyman archers, the best in the country
2 years of public competitions, in which looks count almost as much as ability
6 will win a coveted membership in the Archers’ Guild of St. Sebastian
1 will become the prince’s new Guardsman
Unsigned Card Murder
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Rating: 4.3 #ad
It’s a hoot-and-a-half when Rik Patience – who has no patience – sets out to discover why a “hot” guy at her church refuses to sign the pastor’s birthday card and ends up as a suspect in a murder investigation.
Rik engages the over-sixties members of the Closure Club book reading and mystery-solving group – who refuse to let the grey streaks in their hair define them – in her quest to answer the question – why does her secret heartthrob refuse to sign anything? Is he in witness protection, or is he a criminal?
Before Rik solves that mystery, she finds a body behind his house; is tackled by a ‘black bear’; is accused of poisoning an obnoxious woman who attends her church; and is threatened with the confiscation of her wild animal rescues—a fox, raccoon, jaguarondi, squirrel, and raven.
Twentieth Anniversary Screening
by Jeff Strand
Rating: 4.3 #ad
This mockumentary-style dark comedy recounts the grisly events surrounding the terrible slasher flick THE ROOFER, remembered only because an obsessed fan tried to reenact the murders as they played out on the screen. When the same theater shows the film twenty years later, will the warnings that this is a really, really bad idea be justified?
Bright Triad
by Daniel Zeigler
Rating: 4.5 #ad
A gene therapy project to cure the criminal mind. A monster on the loose. A desperate race to understand.
35-year-old philosophy professor Rand Aroyan is a smart, witty rising star in the field of medical ethics. But when Bright Triad–a project to cure psychopaths with mRNA therapy–instead creates a murderer, Rand becomes obsessed with identifying the killer.
As he teams with a homicide detective, a psychologist, and a charismatic ex-pastor, Rand is forced to grapple with questions of faith and reason, science and religion–and to confront his own deepest fears.
Ranging from funny to thought-provoking to chilling, Bright Triad will appeal to fans of speculative, psychological, and suspense fiction.
Don’t Stop Me
by Lorhainne Eckhart
Rating: 4.3 #ad
Fifteen years ago, Vic McCabe was headed down a one-way road to destruction with the love of his life. But then the unthinkable happened, a mistake that changed their lives forever.
Successful billionaire contractor Vic McCabe is a man every woman wants, but he gives his heart to no one. However, one day a reporter shows up, asking questions about a past he’s buried, a mistake he made fifteen years ago that could destroy his future and that of the woman he’s tried to forget.
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(The McCabe Brothers)
Fugitive Telemetry
by Martha Wells
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it’s “one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I’ve ever read”) Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.
No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.
When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?)
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(The Murderbot Diaries Mysteries)
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
What the Cat Dragged In
by Miranda James
Rating: 4.7 #ad
Charlie has always believed that his grandfather had sold his house to his longtime tenant, Martin Hale. So when Martin dies, Charlie is surprised to discover the house was not left to Martin but instead belongs to Charlie. As he and Diesel check out the house he remembers fondly from his childhood, he is pleasantly surprised that it is in better condition than expected. That is, until they find a literal skeleton in a closet.
While the sheriff’s department investigates the mysterious remains, Charlie digs deeper into the past for clues to the identity of the bones and why they are there. But the cold case heats up quickly when Martin’s grandson is found dead on the farm.
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(Cat in the Stacks Mysteries)
White Lies
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Rating: 4.6 #ad
Level-ten parasensitive Clare Lancaster has resigned herself to the fact that she may never find a suitable mate. A human lie detector, any falsehood – no matter how subtle – sets her blood racing. And most people, to one degree or another, hide behind a façade.
Including her business titan father’s new “consultant,” Jake Salter. His careful conversation walks a delicate line between truth and deception, revealing and resisting. But it is with his help that Clare begins to unravel a web of conspiracy and murder involving the powerful Arizona family that she just became a part of seven months ago.
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(Arcane Society Mysteries)
Time to Kill
by Paul Gitsham
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Seven days until the killer strikes again – but who is next?
DCI Warren Jones is deep into the investigation into an apparent murder-suicide when another case is thrust onto his desk. Winnie Palmer, missing for two months, has been found dead, her body stripped and propped against a tree in the woods.
Two cases are more than enough to handle – but things get even harder for the team when they realise the cases might be linked. And when a third suspicious death is added to the pile, it raises a horrible question. Is there a serial killer on the loose?
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(DCI Warren Jones Mysteries)
The Bodies Left Behind
by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4.4 #ad
When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report?
Brynn stumbles onto a scene of true horror and narrowly escapes from two professional criminals. She and a terrified visitor to the weekend house, Michelle, flee into the woods in a race for their lives. As different as night and day, and stripped of modern-day resources, Brynn, a tough deputy with a difficult past, and Michelle, a pampered city girl, must overcome their natural reluctance to trust each other and learn to use their wits and courage to survive the relentless pursuit.
Garden of Forbidden Secrets
by Eric Wilder
Rating: 4.5 #ad
So you want to play with magic?
There’s trouble in the French Quarter when a professional basketball player hires Wyatt and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate to help him exorcise a supernatural demon. Wyatt is thrilled to have a paying client, Mama, over the moon in lust for the handsome athlete. Things look rosy for the pair of paranormal investigators until the assignment dictates Wyatt travel back in time to antebellum New Orleans. Thrust headfirst into the middle of a dangerous situation, Wyatt must deal with a red-haired Irish witch named Aisling and avoid becoming a haunted torture room victim in the courtyard of the forbidden Lalaurie mansion.
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(French Quarter Mysteries)
The Old Success
by Martha Grimes
Rating: 4.3 #ad
When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her?
While Macalvie stands stumped in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury, twenty miles away on Land’s End, is at the Old Success pub, sharing a drink with the legendary former CID detective Tom Brownell, a man renowned for solving every case he undertook—well, nearly every case. Bronwell discloses that there was one he once missed.
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(The Richard Jury Mysteries)
Oona Out of Order
by Margarita Montimore
Rating: 4.1 #ad
It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order…
Bear Ranger Guardians Collection
by Serena Meadows
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Some want revenge – others are tired of living a lie. When wolf shifters face the enemy – they’re met with blood-pumping bear rangers – seducing them into forbidden love.
“I have read everyone one of these books. There is a mystery that runs through the series and isn’t solved until the last book. Each male shifter is protective and hunky and Each female shifter is strong and smart. Through all the books the couples have to face prejudices from their clans, but their love for each other conquered all.” by Amazon Customer